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The lab is currently composed of five people. The research projects of the different members cover a wide range of areas, from pure computational phylogenetics to plant molecular evolution and biodiversity conservation. Please, see the pages for the different members below to have more details.
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Nicolas Salamin
Tuesday, 28 October 2008 10:05
Beside the projects described for each member of my group, my research focus on the development of new methods to analyse organisms evolution and the application of existing methods to understand evolution in particular groups of plants. They can be grouped in four main research topics:
Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 January 2009 10:16
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Anna Kostikova
Friday, 01 May 2009 07:50
In this project, we seek to understand the relationship between the evolutionary history of a clade, the niche variation and accompanying variation in the distribution of species, and the tendency for plant species to become invasive and/or naturalized. The project will focus on clades that have naturalized and invasive species in Switzerland and central Europe. We will use an interdisciplinary approach that includes activities in niche modeling, sequencing DNA regions, phylogenetic reconstruction and modeling trait evolution. It is a collaboration with Peter Pearman at the WSL.
Last Updated on Friday, 01 May 2009 08:05
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Charlotte Ndiribe
Tuesday, 28 October 2008 11:05
This project is a collaboration with Antoine Guisan. It will aim at understanding the impact of evolutionary relationships on community assembly rules. It will use the Western Alps area as a case study.
Last Updated on Monday, 28 September 2009 07:11
Maryam Zaheri
Tuesday, 28 October 2008 11:05
A phyloinformatic framework is going to be developed aiming at improving several aspects of the analysis of multigene data matrices. This framework involves the implementation of a database allowing regular updating of multigene alignment, as well as the development of models and tools to improve phylogenetic reconstruction methods when dealing with large amount of missing data and complex models of DNA evolution.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:20
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Glenn Litsios
Wednesday, 14 January 2009 13:34
Glenn is doing his Master on estimating ancestral states of characters.
The automated pipeline to do the simulations is based on this perl script.
Last Updated on Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:31
Dorothea Pio
Tuesday, 28 October 2008 11:04
Hotspots are sanctuaries of biodiversity. Yet, with global change, many species are committed to extinction and preservation plans need to be established. What do we want to preserve most? The largest number of species or the largest number of genes or characters? The main aim of this project is to investigate the relationship between species richness (number of species) and phylogenetic diversity (a measure of diversity which takes into account the genetic relatedness between species) in biodiversity hotspots. Currently conservation areas are often selected on the basis of the number of species present, and their level of rarity or endemicity. Yet, species richness may not be the best surrogate for all aspects of biodiversity, such as phylogenetic diversity, as species are not equivalent in terms of the evolutionary history they represent. Do rich communities also contain larger amounts of phylogenetic diversity or not? How are patterns of phylogenetic diversity affected by species sorting, e.g. simulating the sequential disappearance of species (extinctions)?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:21
Master student
Monday, 25 January 2010 21:19
This year, we have four Master students working in our group:
- Sarah Burgy: Evolution of ecological niche in the invasive species Fallopia
- Maïte Guignard: Mode and tempo of speciation in Gesneriaceae (with Mathieu Perret, Botanical Gardens Geneva)
- Eros Gentilini: Population genetics of Ambrosia artemisifolia (with Antoine Guisan)
- Jonathan El-Assad: Phylogeography of Abies alba in the Swiss Alps
Last Updated on Monday, 25 January 2010 21:29
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